About

Project Team:

Jack Pollard

Jack is a sophomore at Washington and Lee from Richmond, Virginia, majoring in Business Administration and minoring in Digital Culture and Information. He is on the football team, Parliamentarian of the fraternity Kappa Alpha - Alpha Chapter, and enjoys outdoor activities. The topic of coeducation is interesting to Jack because it is a major part of the history of where he goes to school. Seeing that the school is coed today, it is interesting to think about what it would be like to go to an all male school and the impacts coeducation had on the university. 

Tom Smulsky

Tom is a senior at Washington and Lee from Plymouth, Michigan, majoring in Strategic Communication and minoring in Creative Writing. He is on the track and field team and a former member of the basketball team, and is involved in the Rotaract Club, Campus Kitchen, and the Rockbridge SPCA. The history of coeducation at Washington and Lee interests Tom because the univeristy was one of the last major institutions in the country to approve of coeducation, and since he has no previous ties to the university, he wanted to learn more on why the decision was made and the impact it had on the student body.

Felicity Taylor

Felicity is a sophomore at Washington and Lee from Charleston, South Carolina majoring in Journalism and minoring in Classics.  She is the Alumni Chair for the Fancy Dress Committee and a member of Pi Beta Phi Sorority. Felicity is very passionate about coeducation at Washington and Lee because her parents were a member of the first coeducated class in 1989. She wanted to know more than the stories she had heard growing up. The history of coeducation is very personal to her and she wanted to know more about it. 

Dani Powers

Dani is a senior at Washington and Lee from Dinwiddie, Virginia majoring in American History. She is on the riding team and is involved in 24, Intervarsity, and Peer Tutoring. Washington and Lee's history of coeducation interests Dani because she is pursuing a career in public history and wanted to learn about how a major nationwide transition period affected the Washington and Lee community as well as how those community members remembered their experiences.